Essential Grid for ASP.NET MVC is a lightweight, AJAX-enabled, high-performance grid component built especially to suit the programming model of the ASP.NET MVC framework. It has a rich feature set that includes hierarchies, grouping, sorting, paging, data binding, editing, filtering, and several built-in styles.

Essential Grid is designed for performance and can easily handle millions of records. AJAX is extensively used to reduce traffic—only the required data is sent between the client and server, minimizing data transfer and response time.

A unique feature of Essential Tools is that several controls—including accordions, date pickers, sliders, and tabs—are based on the jQuery JavaScript framework, which is a powerful industry standard. This approach ensures that the components are extremely stable and rich in features. The controls have also been enhanced to enable easy integration into ASP.NET MVC applications. The enhancements also include several new built-in skins in addition to those provided by the jQuery framework.

Also, AJAX is extensively used to reduce traffic between the client and the server; this minimizes data transfer and response time.

Some of our MVC controls like Rating and File Upload use HTML 5 to provide a truly rich user experience.

Essential Chart for ASP.NET MVC is a high-performance charting component that is very easy to use and is also visually stunning. It includes 35 chart types ranging from simple column charts to specialized financial charts. The charts are also highly customizable and have a powerful data model which makes data binding simple.

Essential Diagram is an extensible, high-performance .NET diagramming framework built on HTML 5 for ASP.NET MVC applications. It can be used for developing Microsoft Visio-like interactive graphics and diagramming applications. It stores graphical objects in a node graph and renders those objects on the screen. It supports both vector and raster graphics on the drawing surface.

Essential Gauge for ASP.NET MVC contains radial, digital, rolling, and linear gauge controls. All gauges are visually stunning and behave like real gauges. The appearance is also very customizable in that all the elements in the gauge—including scales, ticks, and labels—can be fully tailored to your needs.

Essential Schedule for ASP.NET MVC is an Outlook Calendar-like Scheduler control that lets you add rich scheduling capabilities to your Web applications. It includes an advanced set of features including data binding, multiple resource views, rich interactivity, support for AJAX, client-side events, and much more.

Essential PDF Viewer is a 100% managed .NET component that will have the ability to view and print PDF files from your WPF and Windows Forms applications. This feature supports exporting PDF files to various image formats such as, BMP, JPEG and PNG.

Visual Studio 2010 SP1 is now available for download! The service pack was released to MSDN subscribers on March 8 and became generally available on March 10. SP1 includes fixes that improve reliability and address the most commonly-reported customer bugs. It also adds some of the most requested feature improvements, including a new local help viewer, IntelliTrace support in more scenarios, and built-in Silverlight 4 tooling.

Overview

This download installs Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1). This service pack release addresses issues that were found through a combination of customer and partner feedback, as well as internal testing. These service packs offer Visual Studio users improvements in responsiveness and stability, as well as completes some high-impact scenarios requested by customers. The full list of updates included in this service pack can be found here.

Important:

Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) will upgrade all editions and languages of Visual Studio 2010 you have already installed. If you install any other editions or languages of Visual Studio 2010 after SP1, you must reapply SP1.

If you installed Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta, you should not uninstall it before installing this release of SP1.

Prior to installation, you should carefully review the readme to be aware of any known issues with this release.

Note: Do not install this service pack if you have downloaded and installed the stand-alone ‘Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4 (Windows SDK v7.1)’ and you are using the x64 or IA64 compilers that were included in that download. Please see the related article for more information.

Overview

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Beta helps keep your PCs and servers on the latest support level, provides ongoing improvements to the Windows Operating System (OS), by including previous updates delivered over Windows Update as well as continuing incremental updates to the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 platforms based on customer and partner feedback, and is easy for organizations to deploy a single set of updates.

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Beta will help you:

Keep your PCs supported and up-to-date

Get ongoing updates to the Windows 7 platform

Easily deploy cumulative updates at a single time

Meet your users’ demands for greater business mobility

Provide a comprehensive set of virtualization innovations

Provide an easier Service Pack deployment model for better IT efficiency

In order to download and install the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Beta you must currently have a Release to Manufacturing (RTM) version of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 already installed.

To learn more about SP1 Beta and Windows Server 2008 R2, visit the SP1 Details Page.

*Windows 7 Minimum System Requirements:

1 GHz or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor

1 GB of RAM (32-bit) / 2 GB RAM (64-bit)

16 GB available disk space (32-bit) / 20 GB (64-bit)

DirectX 9 graphics processor with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

DVD-compatible drive

Internet access (fees may apply)

Note: Some product features of Windows 7, such as the ability to watch and record live TV, BitLocker, or navigation through the use of “touch,” may require advanced or additional hardware. Windows XP Mode requires an additional 1 GB of RAM and 15 GB of available disk space.

Each version is available in these languages: English, French, German, Japanese and Spanish.

For More Details

The Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Betas are concurrent releases that are in a single download for a more streamlined and cost effective deployment. Businesses can begin realizing the advancements of the Windows Server platform for virtualization through two key features: Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX.

The Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Beta is a joint release for both Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7. SP1 Beta for Windows Server 2008 R2 includes previously released updates and delivers a number of powerful new features for virtualization and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI): Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX.

By registering for the Service Pack 1 Beta, you will receive updates on new builds and beta expiration dates. You are encouraged to register but if you wish, you can opt out of registration and proceed directly to the download. If you choose to opt-out of registration, you will not be contacted further. To opt-out, please proceed to the download.